Emerald’s Gem Box: Happy New Year!

2021 is here! Hallelujah! I don't think there has ever been another year in history that everyone in the entire world has wanted to see gone more than the year 2020! Usually, at the end of December, we are all saying, "Where has the time gone?" But this year has seemed to have lasted FOREVER! And sadly, we look back and have very few memories of anything, for we have not been able to conduct our lives as we normally do.  2020 was hard on all of us. Although my businesses didn't close down, I have a lot of friends whose businesses did have to shut down and they suffered a lot more than I have. I have friends that lost their jobs and I have friends that are still unemployed because